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Episode 144
In this deeply human and emotionally exact episode of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey speaks with Barbara, an older Jewish woman, daughte…
6 hours ago
Interlude LXXVII: Myth | Joseph Campbell, Mircea Eliade, Narrative Architecture, Sacred Time, Consciousness, Identity, and the Stories Beneath Belief
Episode 143
In this interlude of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey explores myth as one of the deepest structures shaping human consciousness, identity…
5 days, 8 hours ago
Mailbag Installment XXXIII: When Fear Becomes Reality | Paranoia, Fear, Threat States, Family Conflict, Reality Testing, and Professional Help
Episode 142
In this Mailbag installment of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey responds to a listener named Jemmy L., who writes in with a painful and ur…
6 days, 3 hours ago
Interlude LXXVI: Language | How Speech Shapes Reality, Lev Vygotsky, George Lakoff, Inner Speech, Metaphor, Framing, Consciousness, and Identity
Episode 141
In this interlude of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey explores one of the most powerful forces shaping human consciousness: language.
Befo…
1 week ago
Mailbag Installment XXXII: The One Who Broke the Pattern | Family Estrangement, Lineage, Epigenetics, Inherited Trauma, Murray Bowen, Monica McGoldrick, and Phylogenetic Inertia
Episode 140
In this Mailbag installment of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey responds to a listener named Rachel C., who has recently become completely…
1 week, 5 days ago
Interlude LXXV: Lineage | Family Systems, Generational Trauma, Epigenetics, Phylogenetic Inertia, Murray Bowen, Monica McGoldrick
Episode 139
In this interlude of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey examines one of the most powerful forces shaping human identity: lineage.
Human bein…
1 week, 6 days ago
Dr. Troy Hassan Shepherd
Episode 138
Every so often, I come across a dissertation that isn't merely trying to answer a question. It's trying to redraw the map upon which the question its…
2 weeks ago
Interlude LXXIV: Inheritance | Cultural Memory, Consciousness, Identity, Jan Assmann, Merlin Donald, Relational Topology of Consciousness
Episode 137
In this interlude of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey begins a new arc exploring one of the deepest questions in human life:
What do we re…
2 weeks, 5 days ago
Mailbag installment 31: The Search for a Compass | Purpose, Identity, Belonging, Mentorship, Meaning, Relational Consciousness
Episode 136
In this Mailbag episode of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey responds to a listener struggling with a question that has quietly haunted hum…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
Interlude LXXIII: Continuity | Cultural Memory, Civilization, Jan Assmann, Joseph Henrich, Tradition, Collective Knowledge
Episode 135
In this interlude of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey examines one of the most consequential questions a civilization can face:
What allow…
3 weeks ago